Lunarpages Review

Lunarpages serves as the web hosting division of Add2Net, Inc. Its staff and technical support team has established an impressive 10 year history in the web hosting industry. This is relatively long considering that most web hosting companies are fly-by-night operations and in all reality, you need a company that will always be around.

Lunarpages has earned a reputation as a provider with superior customer support and a solid data center. Unlike most web hosting companies, you can always get through the phone line with Lunarpages.

Price Value

Lunarpages offers decent pricing on their web-hosting plans. For a mere $4.95 a month, you receive Unlimited space and Unlimited traffic per month. They also offer a $18.95 web-hosting package, which sports unlimited storage and a phenomenal Unlimited monthly transfer. For most users, the $4.95 plan, the Basic Plan, is sufficient, but it's great to see a shared host offering as robust a plan as their Business Hosting plan for those with exceptional needs. They also offer Windows hosting and even Virtual Private Servers.

All of their plans offer at least one free domain name registration, database support, web software such as blogs, forums, and Fantastico. They are among the more pricey of hosts, but are also among the most generous.

Reliability

Lunarpages is continuously acknowledged as the premier hosting choice for webmasters seeking a quality host with the industry's best uptime & best customer service. It has a reputation of the world's most affordable web hosting provider and it is committed to making sure that its service levels continue to meet and exceed the expectations of even most demanding clients.

Lunarpages has a long track record of offering quality hosting, with reliability and support representing cornerstones of their corporate culture. We experienced very little in the way of problems there and were impressed with the responsiveness of their staff in addressing those issues that did arise.

Overall, their reliability is good, very good compared to most hosts, especially shared hosts. This alone easily landed them on our top 10 chart.

Control Panel

Lunarpages currently utilizes the latest version of the CPanel control panel system. The features are pretty much the same to other CPanel installations, such as mailbox modification, password and ftp login management, statistical tools and so on. CPanel doesn't offer any web-building tool, but for web hosting administration it offers the user an easy and intuitive interface along with a plentitude of features.

The performance of the control panel, during our review of Lunarpages, was decent. It was not as snappy as others on our list, but at the same time, it wasn't bad either.

Customer Support

Lunarpages provides a superior level of customer service and they are very responsive to questions and concerns. Even questions submitted to their e-mail support are always answered in a timely manner. This sets them apart in an industry where email support tends to be the weakest link in otherwise solid support chains. Accounts are usually setup within thirty minutes to one hour of order verification.

It is essential that a working phone number be provided in order for your account to be setup immediately. This is a bit more involved and time consuming than many similar hosts, but is understandable given the high rate of attempted fraud that occurs.

Summary

Lunarpages is one of the most simple web hosts providing hosting services and it caters to the need of beginners as well as experts. Considering the value for money offerings of Lunarpages and their feature rich plan and not to forget their topnotch service and support system I conclude that it is worth investing host and it is the best for beginners, since they virtually just have to follow the instructions and all the work is done by Lunarpages.